People are enjoying the apocalypses in the media, the expertly-engineered products are a thrill to us.

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We are now driven by this whole bouquet of apocalypses that appear in newspaper every day.

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President Obama's new science adviser, John Holdren, is a fervent believer in the crank theories of Paul Ehrlich, a once popular scientist who wrote the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb, along with treatisespredicting imminent mass global starvation and various other apocalypses.

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In my lifetime there have been a large number of predicted nutritional apocalypses, caused by overpopulation, lack of biological diversity in our food supply, genetic engineering run amok, acid rain, too little ozone, too much ozone and, finally, global warming.

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They are just tired of being hectored by scientists proclaiming certain apocalypses that never pan out: Examples include acid rain and the death of the forest, asteroids, the population bomb, and a catastrophic extinction of species that has eluded detection.

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President Obama's new science adviser, John Holdren, is a fervent believer in the crank theories of Paul Ehrlich, a once popular scientist who wrote the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb, along with treatises predicting imminent mass global starvation and various other apocalypses.

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Science treasures its own apocalypses.

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